Quote Integration Activity
Effectively integrate at least 5 quotes listed below for each of the following stories:

A. "Harrison Bergeron"

"The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal" (Vonnegut 133).

"Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else" (Vonnegut 133).

"And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away" (Vonnegut 134).

"Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains" (Vonnegut 134).

"George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped" (Vonnegut 134).

"I'd have chimes on Sunday-just chimes. Kind of in honor of religion" (Vonnegut 135).

" 'Two years in prison and two thousand dollars fine for every ball I took out,' said George. 'I don't call that a bargin' " (Vonnegut 135).

"And pretty soon we'd be right back in the Dark Ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn't like that, would you?" (Vonnegut 136).

"The minute people start cheating on laws, what do you think happens to society?" (Vonnegut 136).

"She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous" (Vonnegut 136).

"Nobody had ever borne heavier handicaps. He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up" (Vonnegut 136).

"Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once!" (Vonnegut 137-138).

"Crippled, hobbled, sickened-I am a greater ruler than any man who has ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!" (Vonnegut 138).

"He flung away his rubber ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of Thunder" (Vonnegut 138).

"Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and laws of motion as well" (Vonnegut 138).

"She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the ground" (Vonnegut 138).

B. "The Masque of Red Death"

"The 'Red Death' had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous" (Poe 1).

"And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour" (Poe 1).

"But the Prince Propero was happy and dauntless and sagacious" (Poe 1).

"The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think" (Poe 1).

"All these and security were within. Without was the 'Red Death' " (Poe 1).

"It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade" (Poe 2).

"But first let me tell you of the rooms in which it was held. There were seven..." (Poe 2).

"The apartment were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time" (Poe 2).

"But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet--a deep blood color" (Poe 2).

"It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony" (Poe 3).

"His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre" (Poe 4).

"To and fro in the seven chambers there stalked, in fact, a multitude of dreams" (Poe 4).

"And then, for a moment, all is still, and all is silent save the voice of the clock" (Poe 4).

"But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are none of the maskers who venture" (Poe 5).

"And thus, too, it happenned, perhaps, that before the last echoes of the last chime had utterly sunk into silence, there were many individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of the presence of a masked figure which had arrested the attention of no single individual before" (Poe 5).

"In truth the masquerade license of the night was nearly unlimited" (Poe 5).

"The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habilimants of the grave" (Poe 6).

"Who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? Seize him and unmask him--that we may know whom we have to hang at sunrise, from the battlements!" (Poe 6).

"There was a sharp cry--and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero" (Poe 7).

"He had come like a thief in the night" (Poe 8).

"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all" (Poe 8).

C. "The Lottery"

"In some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 26th" (Jackson 1).

"School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them" (Jackson 1).

"Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones" (Jackson 1).

"They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed" (Jackson 1).

"The women, wearing faded house dresses and sweaters, came shortly after their menfolk" (Jackson 1).

"The lottery was conducted--as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program--by Mr. Summers" (Jackson 2).

"The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago" (Jackson 2).

"The black box grew shabbier each year: by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained" (Jackson 2).

"There were lists to make up--of heads of families, heads of households in each family, members of each household in each family" (Jackson 3).

"Mrs. Hutchinson reached her husband, and Mr. Summers, who had been waiting, said cheerfully: 'Thought we were going to have to get on without you Tessie' " (Jackson 4).

Mrs. Hutchinson said, grinning, 'Wouldn't want me to leave m'dishes in the sink, now, would you, Joe?' " (Jackson 4).

"Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work anymore, live that way for a while" (Jackson 5).

"Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon" (Jackson 5).

"Some places have already quit lotteries" (Jackson 5).

" 'Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery,' Old Man Warner said as he went through the crowd" (Jackson 7).

" 'Daughters draw with their husbands' families, Tessie,' Mr. Summers said gently" (Jackson 8).

"I tell you it wasn't fair. You didn't give him enough time to choose. Everybody saw that" (Jackson 8).

"Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use the stones" (Jackson 10).

" 'It isn't fair, it isn't right,' Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her" (Jackson 10).

D. "The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas"

"All smiles have become archaic" (Le Guin 15).

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit... of considering happiness as something stupid" (Le Guin 16).

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting" (Le Guin 16).

"If it hurts, repeat it" (Le Guin 16).

"We have almost lost hold, we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy" (Le Guin 16-17).

"Happiness is based on just discrimination of what is necessay, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive" (Le Guin 17-18).

"If so, please add an orgy" (Le Guin 19).

"Religion yes, clergy no" (Le Guin 19).

"One thing I know there is none of in Omelas is guilt" (Le Guin 20).

"The joy built upon the successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy" (Le Guin 21).

"...the victory they celebrate is that of life" (Le Guin 21).

"In a basement under one of the beautiful public buildings of Omelas..." (Le Guin 23).

"In one corner of the little room a couple of mops, with stiff, clotted, foul-smelling heads, stand near a rusty bucket" (Le Guin 24).

"In the room a child is stting" (Le Guin 24).

"It is afraid of the mops. It finds them horrible" (Le Guin 25).

" 'I will be good,' it says. 'Please let me out. I will be good!' " (Le Guin 26).

"It is naked" (Le Guin 26).

"They all know that it has to be there" (Le Guin 26).

"...but they all understand that their happiness... depends wholly on this child's abominable misery" (Le Guin 27).

"They feel anger, outrage, imoptence, despite all explanations" (Le Guin 28).

"...if it were cleaned and fed and comforted... all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed" (Le Guin 28).

"The terms are strict and absolute; there may not even be a kind word spoken to the child" (Le Guin 28-29).

"...when they have seen the child and faced this terrible paradox" (Le Guin 29).

"It has been afriad too long to be free of fear" (Le Guin 29).

"They know that they, like the child, are not free" (Le Guin 30).

"These people go out into the street, and walk down the street alone" (Le Guin 31).

"They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back"
(Le Guin 32).

"The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist at all" (Le Guin 32).